Alpona 2.0 - Alpona keyboard Manager is a Unicode enabled Bangla keyboard manager. As planned it will have complete support for Bengali in Unicode under all 32-bit Windows including Windows XP, and will be supplied with various converters to change older bangla documents into Unicode. Planning phase software. Commercial. Windows.
Ankur : Bangla (Bengali) support for OSS - This website gather several subprojects aimed at developing input methods and applications supporting bangla on Linux. It also provides infrastructure for people who want to translate documentation to bangla.
Asha - This is a bangla typing program. It supports multiple keyboard layouts and switching between bangla and english typing modes. Commercial. Windows
Avro Keyboard - Bangla Unicode Input Software for Windows - Avro Keyboard can generate Bangla (Bengali) Unicode from keystrokes on a US keyboard. You can use it to enter Bangla (Bengali) characters directly into any Unicode compliant applications, such as MS Word Xp, MS FrontPage Xp, MS Outlook Express 6, MS WordPad etc. If you are a font developer, Avro Keyboard is a practical way for testing your Bangla fonts. Freeware. Windows.
Bangla Linux - This project aims to provide guidelines and technology for developing Open Source Bangla applications under the GNU Linux OS
Bangla Opensource Community - The site is dedicated for open source software developemnt, specially bangla (bengali) related. Some bangla applications have been released, such as a English to Bengali Translator written in visual basic and a Bnagla menu builder. The site has many, periodic and annoying popups (due to where it is hosted). The license under which the applications are released seems to vary, but the model seems to follow the Open Source License.
Bangla Penguin - Aims at making a bangla distribution of linux available. Current work on translating the gnome desktop on the RedHat distribution
Bangla Spell Checker Algorithm - This is a paper dealing with an algorithm for checking bangla spellings in scanned text (OCR). Pdf. Reference page.
BangSee - A bangla messenger software, that uses unicode and allows the user to mix both english and bangla in the same messenger window. The bangla input is romanized. There is a short FAQ dealing with romanisation isues. There is an add-in for MS word2000 which can help users making bangla html documents too. Commercial. Windows.
Bangtex - This is a package for typesetting documents in Bangla using the Tex/Latex system. Freeware. Linux, Unix and Windows (needs Latex installed on the machine)
Bengali - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers - Test your Web browser and fonts for the ability to display the Unicode Bengali range of characters. Part of Alan Wood's Unicode Resources.Diagnostic page.
Bengali Writer - Mouse based bangla typing software. Windows
Bengali Writer - Set of utilities for editing and typesetting in Bangla. Provided are a set of fonts in several formats (METAFONT, BDF, PS), a text editor with spell checking and export to LaTeX. Free, under GPL. Unix, Linux (X11 systems)
BengaliMail - Web-based Bengali Mail - Online interface. Allows you to send mail via a browser. Has both phonetic and 1-to-1 mapped keyboard layouts.
Bornosoft - Commercial company developing Bornosoft - a transliteration based Bangla writing software.
Bspeller - A light weight text editor with a Bengali spell checker. The spell checker is based on GNU Aspell Library. This program is part of the Bengali dictionary project, and uses the word list provided by the project. Bspeller also has an unique feature of printing Bengali text files using OpenType fonts. This is a feature currently not available in most of the popular text editors, eg. gedit, and kedit. Linux. GPLd
BWTI Homepage - Bengali TeX Interface. Enables one to compose documents in the bangla script using latex. Freeware. Unix,linux, windows. Needs Latex installed. Also see BengaliWriter
Digital Bangla Project - The project aims to raise money to release a (currently) commercial bangla wordprocessing software into the public domain by selling 500 copies of it to donors.
Ekushey - Free Bengali typing add-in for MSWord 97/2000/XP. Supports multiple keyboard layouts and bangla font types. Installs with 5 TTFs. Also allows automatic transliteration between Bangla & English, export to TEX. Windows. Open source under GPL.
Free Bangla Fonts Project - This is a volunteer run project dedicated to creating free, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bangla fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bangla fonts. The site has several OT bangla fonts for free download under the GNU GPL
Indian Language Software from Lingua - Executive is an add-on for Microsoft Word. It integrates with Word to allow the processing of multiple scripts in a single document. Complete range of characters in all languages (including the most complex Bengali conjuncts).
Instant Messaging in Bangla - Software, howto, fonts available for instant messaging on Linux. This is a howto on the ilug-cal website.
ITRANS - This is an Indic language print package that works as a pre-processor for TeX or PostScript. Freeware. UNIX/MS-DOS
Java Applet to write Bangla Unicode - This webpage has a java applet that runs in your browser window. It displays two text fields. The first allows you to enter romanised bangla the second displays the bangla converted to unicode. Online. Platform independent.
KickKeys :Transliteration Software. - Transliteration software for Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Assamese, Belarusian, Russian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian in Cyrillic. Needs Microsoft Word or WordPad. Commercial. Windows.
Lekho : A Bangla Unicode Editor - Plain text Unicode editor for bangla. Has a spellchecker, undo/redo, and exports to bangtex. It is based on the QT toolkit. Runs on X11 (linux,freeBSD,unix) and windows systems. GPLd.
OpenBangSee - This is an open source version of BangSee. It provides free Phonetic Bangla codes for Bangla Community developed in Java and C/C++
Proshikha Computer Systems - This site has download links to Proshika's Shabda (word processor), Nirbhool (spell checker), Annaroup (text converter), and ProData (visual foxpro, bangla database) software. Windows. Commercial. (You need to download the software then buy the registration key)
Protiva Software - Developers of Lekhok a bangla word processor and Hateykhori, a bengali scripting software for children who would like to learn Bengali. Windows. Commercial
Shaheed's home page - Contains a font encoded as per iso10646. Also contains an encoding file for is13194-bengali which was used by previous versions of the font. There are plans for a GUI virtual keyboard to make entering Bengali and other languages which use keyboard mapping nicer.
Tanmatra - Tanmatra mulitilingual software. Word processor for Bangla. Uses a phonetic transliteration input method
TWiki . I18n . BengaliLanguage - Some links and information (mainly in the form of FDL'd documentation) on getting linux to display/use bangla. There is information about bangla Open Type fonts, and encoding bangla in unicode.
Unicode Bengali Code Chart - This is a page on the unicode consortium website containing the latest Bengali code point definitions in the unicode standard. Diagnostic page.
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